Talk:Canicattì slaughter

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  • This needs to be researched deeper. This needs to be flagged somehow (I don't know how). It's too brief and seems much too "black and white."

John 22:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup

This page needs a credible source. A search under Google does not return one indpendent page from a credible source. Philip Baird Shearer 10:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

  • As far as I can tell, all the claims on the web reference a biography of Patton by Stanley Hirshson. If anyone has ready access to the biography, they may be able to shed some light. Willhsmit 01:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

It seems some research is needed here. I've stumbled across this article by accident and don't have enough time now. But see:

I've also added the {{Unreferenced}} tag to better pinpoint the problem (which seems solvable) --Pjacobi 08:16, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Two different accounts of the incident can be read on pages 378-9 of Prof. Hirshson's biography of Patton. (Google Books link) I added a reference for this book to the article, but someone may want to revise the text. Slicing 06:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I removed the {{POV-check}} because the fact is confirmed also by many italian historians ( check for example the reference I added in the end of the article ) and I don't see any reason to claim "disputed" a well known and prooved fact like this one. Regards. (Virgilio 03:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC))

What I, as a mere lowly user, miss here are details, context, an account of how this happened, what justification, if any, was given by people responsible. I do not think the fact that some civilians were shot by Allied soldiers at a particular place in Canicatti, at a particular time is disputed at all. This happened. What can be disputed is the decision not to say anything beyond "American soldiers shot some civilians at a soap factory." Surely the sources referenced say a bit more than that, and if they don't, more sources need to be consulted?

It seems that this stub is factually incorrect it seems to be a case where there was looting and a chair warmer decided to order them shot, the order was refused and he personally shot the 'looters' by randomly shooting into the crowd. Anyone want to update with some facts?

  • It was impossible for Patton to behave in a diferent way. In my opinion, instead of Karl Dönitz and people like Alfred Jodl, Patton had to be charged with war crimes. Chivalry is more important that being a careless yankee. Deliogul 12:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Info on some sources

Here [1] you can find the text of the relevant pages of Bartolone's book.

--Lou Crazy 14:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verifiable

Isn't it just a little bit possible that this officer was merely shooting at looters, and that claims made 50 years after the fact by a person who wasn't even there should be taken with a grain of salt? This article is very weakly sourced. It doesn't belong in an encyclopedia the way it is. Haber 18:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

The quotation is from someone who was there. Paul B 19:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Who made that statement? The notes point to an Italian source from 50 years after the event, and an Axis web forum. The quote is attributed to a "witness". This is very weak sourcing. Haber 20:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I don't know the name of the person who made it. I will not be easy to find, but why an Italian source "from 50 years after the event" is weak, I don't know. Are Italians inherently unreliable? By definition the most recent literature will be long after the event. That's a very odd reason for trying to disqualify it. By that logic the latest book on a subject is the least reliable! The Axis forum is not the ideal source, but it is clearly not POV and is detailed. Shooting people - including children - for taking liquid soap from a bombed factory is unacceptable however you look at it. Paul B 06:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
During wartime, preventing looters from stealing food can be the difference between life and starvation. I suspect the translation is screwed up, because the building sounds less like a "factory" and more like a warehouse or a market to me. And if we can't attribute the quote to a person or a more reliable source then it needs to go. Haber 13:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
This is sheer special pleading. You know very well that it was mostly soap that was being taken. I notice that most of your other edits seems designed to minimise Allied war crimes. As far as I'm concerned suppression is definitely not the best policy. The "war crimes" attributed to the Western allies (I don't include the Soviets) are mostly a matter of individual incidents - almost inevitable in such a mass war. Of course Britain and the US had some rapists and thugs in their population just like all countries do. Such incidents don't compare in the slightest to the systematic criminality of the Axis. But attempting suppress evidence has the effect of making the pro-Nazi lobby seem justified. The word "factory" simply means a place of manufacture. I will try to find the documents, but I suspect you know very well that the incident is well attested. Paul B 14:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Please provide some real evidence before you accuse me of suppressing it. We have not even gotten that far yet. I don't doubt that something happened in Canicatti. I would simply like to see that the Wikipedia version of events is properly documented. In the absence of reliable sources, we're better off saying nothing at all. Haber 15:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
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